Shimi at work!
Beautiful Shimi is now 12 weeks old. She has grown so fast and weighed in at almost 12 kilos at the vets this week. She has trained extremely fast and learnt to sit on the first attempt (how did she even know what to do?). We have always made dogs ’sit’ before we give them their dinner so I took her bowl out the back and said “sit”… and she did and I gave her her dinner. From then on every time we said ’sit’ she does! She also understands quite a lot of other words. She learnt how to use Mahli’s doggie door at home and from that minute on has not messed inside during the day or night. At 10 weeks I was getting sick of having to get up at 5 or 6 am because she was yapping in her cage for breakfast. I was exhausted after two weeks of that. So we decided instead of putting her in her pen to use it to section her off so she could only be on tiled areas and had the doggie door. From that day onward she no longer whines in the morning and waits patiently for us to get up at 7am when I get her breakfast. She is still not completely toilet trained at work as there is no doggie door it is more like ‘toilet timing’ when she gets up after a long sleep or after a drink or food we take her out and she’ll go to the toilet. She’s had a couple of slip ups so she still has to learn to go to the door and ask to go out.
Shimi checking out the damn overflow pipe
She now towers over Mahli in height and is almost double her weight and she knows it as she uses these to her advantage when they play. She is a bully and sides on to Mahli and pushes her against the wall or stands over the top of her. She’ll even walk past Mahli and turn and knock her over with her backside!
We’ve been spending weekends up at the Piesse Brook property and Shimi LOVES it. She loves sniffing around the paddocks, checking out the dam and the overflow pipe. Playing in the mud and checking out the ducklings. She is content sleeping in the house in the cool on and off during the day while we are outside working. She comes down every now and then to see what we are doing and heads back inside if it is too hot. Even at night she’s totally trustworthy to leave loose in the house as she uses the doggie door to go
Shimi even gets cuddles when all muddy!
out to the toilet and then comes back inside and goes back to sleep. It is so nice having such a trustworthy dog who doesn’t bugger off every time you open the door like Mahli did as a puppy and young dog. Even now you can’t completely trust Mahli not to disappear when you have your back turned. Beth is taking Mahli down to Mandurah this weekend.